They did not always “dream of a team of Carraghers” at Anfield. There was a
time, as he recalled with some amusement in an interview with The
Times in March 2006, when Jamie Carragher was struggling at right
back and attracting such criticism on the Liverpool Echo letters page
that his father started to look up those critics in the telephone directory
and give him a piece of his mind.

“It was in a period where the team wasn’t doing well,” Carragher said. “It was
after the treble in 2001 and then we’d finished second and then for the next